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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 19:20:06 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Arun Sharma <adsharma@unix-os.sc.intel.com>, ia64@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can freebsd support intel ee870 chipset? 
Message-ID:  <20021218032006.E40932A7EA@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021218021001.GB1583@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> 

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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:32:31PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > 
> > I could boot to the sysinstall screen with the RC1 CD on this
> > platform (Tiger), but then the keyboard didn't work for me. 
> 
> Excellent! (the sysinstall part, not the keyboard part :-)
> 
> > The platform requires a USB keyboard driver (doesn't have a PS/2
> > port). It looks like the ia64 GENERIC kernel doesn't have usb or ukbd
> > enabled. But the i386 GENERIC kernel *does* have it enabled. Is it
> > possible to enable it in ia64 GENERIC kernel before the 5.0 release ?
> 
> Good info. I disabled USB because it caused the machine to hang,
> but if you loaded it as a KLD after booting, everything was fine.
> 
> It seems USB is too important to leave out. I'll look into it,

The problem was that USB used to lock up the Tiger4 system I had for a
while.  Other than that (it was an 870 based system) it seemed to work
fine.  It exposed a whole new bunch of bugs that we had not run into on the
460GX/itanium1 boxes though. :-)

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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